John Lewis, invoking George Wallace, says McCain and Palin 'playing with fire'

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October 11, 2008

John Lewis, invoking George Wallace, says McCain and Palin 'playing with fire'

UPDATED WITH MCCAIN STATEMENT AND OBAMA REACTION

Civil rights icon and Georgia congressman John Lewis is accusing John McCain and Sarah Palin of stoking hate, likening the atmosphere at Republican campaign events to those featuring George Wallace, the segregationist former governor of Alabama and presidential candidate. McCain's campaign has responded with a statement in the candidate's name, urging Barack Obama to repudiate Lewis's comments.

"What I am seeing reminds me too much of another destructive period in American history," Lewis said in a statement issued today for Politico's Arena forum. "Sen. McCain and Gov. Palin are sowing the seeds of hatred and division, and there is no need for this hostility in our political discourse."

Lewis didn't accuse McCain of imitating Wallace, but suggested there were similarities.

"George Wallace never threw a bomb," Lewis noted. "He never fired a gun, but he created the climate and the conditions that encouraged vicious attacks against innocent Americans who were simply trying to exercise their constitutional rights. Because of this atmosphere of hate, four little girls were killed on Sunday morning when a church was bombed in Birmingham, Alabama."

http://www.politico.com/blogs/jonathanmartin/1008/John_Lewis_invoking_George_Wallace_says_McCain_and_Palin_playing_with_fire.html

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1. I hope Obama does not repudiate these comments

because they have been inciting a riot along with hannity, rush, ann coulter, bill oreily, nancy grace, and the list goes on of hate mongers who have gotten people killed or they committed suicide because of their character assassinations and spreading lies like 911 and iraq are related